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Starting Your Own Business

Strategy Driven

Are you ready to turn your career into a 24/7 lifestyle? When you eat, sleep, and breathe your career, time becomes a lot more valuable. It should be no surprise that starting a business costs money. Not to mention there are plenty of startup and ongoing costs required to keep your company afloat. Say goodbye to your 9-5.

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Looking For Leadership

N2Growth Blog

Leaders and non-leaders alike need career-pathing, training and development. If the cream isn't allowed to rise to the top it will go somewhere else…real leaders don't incubate well. mikemyatt: RT @thinkBIG_blog: Cheap always costs you mo. " Ron [link] mikemyatt Hi Ron: Thanks for the comment. Our Freedom.

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How to Make Sustainability Every Employee’s Responsibility

Harvard Business Review

My framework for creating such sustainability ownership has three phases: incubate, launch, and entrench. Incubation is the process of, first, defining the contours of your sustainability domain by reflecting on the purpose of your business and its specific role in the world. billion, prompting them to revisit the goal.

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Why Older Entrepreneurs Have an Edge

Harvard Business Review

At a time when he was really down on his luck, he considered jobs he never imagined earlier in his career, like becoming a night watchman. Charlton and Reid decided to launch TechTown, a nonprofit business incubator, which went on to spark a small renaissance in entrepreneurship in midtown Detroit.

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Surefire Predictions and Why Doomsayers are Wrong

Harvard Business Review

Young scientists will invent energy-saving or health-promoting products, incubate new ventures while still in college, and sell them to markets eager for ways to control energy or health care costs. Already the idea of encore careers is taking hold.

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Job Growth Depends on Reducing Entrepreneurial Risk

Harvard Business Review

They do not decrease the cost to the entrepreneur if his venture fails. Reduce the upfront costs of starting a high-potential business. Instead of manipulating the tax code to encourage startups once they are profitable, we should do everything we can to remove these early costs in the system. Lower the cost of failure.

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Bring Back the General Manager

Harvard Business Review

However starting in the 1980's, many companies evolved to "functional" structures to cut costs and reduce duplication. As a result of this shift, career paths today are less geared towards filling the few remaining general management positions, and instead focus on functional specialization.